acemuzzy wrote:

Tilt your head to the side

Give your head a wobble

What’s the betting that Ninty will offer up a second set of joycons as an alternative control for VR games, one set attached to the Switch and the other for VR feels? Works best with Switch+!

I’ll buy the lot and use it for 5 minutes.

Oh yeah I forgot there was no head strap, doh!

All I want is a 3D platformer where you control the camera with your face while moving a character around in third person and dealing with Ninty design genius stuff. I don't care if it's Mario, Wario or [insert someone else, I don't care].

Actually, a Punch-Out! would be nice too.

Trying Smash Bros again, this time with my nephew. I still hate it.

My Boy played a couple of hours after I spent £50 or so on digital version and hasn’t gone back to it. That’ll learn me for not going physical. I thought he’d be all over it.

I'm going to buy an Xbox One and an Xbox One game I don't like and then never shut the fuck up about it in all of your favourite threads!!!

I don't have an Xbox either.

I've fallen out with it. Wish I didn't get digital but ho hum.

There is another...

But, yeah, all a bit dull.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

hylian_elf wrote:

You might wanna pick PS4 for maximum effect. Then you’ll have Bob to deal with.

Tbf at least there’s only one blindly defending PS4 stuff rather than multiples.

Not blindly thanks

Some of you might recall me talking about Active Soccer 2 DX on PS4 being a great, old school football game, which I hoped would see the light of day on Switch.

Well, Active Soccer 2019 has appeared in the ‘Coming Soon’ section of the eShop.

Huzzah.

I love a good browse on Thursdays.

I think Yoshi might be a bad game. In the sense that it’s got some good quality but also they made some right fuck ups in the design and some of which may cynically extend the life of the game beyond its actual interesting period.

Firstly the hidden object challenges are annoying. It’s like doing a word search where you have to move your head so you can see the whole grid. Naughtily you have to keep going through the level to get different hidden objects, sort of like doing a word search where they give you one word at a time. Some of the levels are auto scrolling which is like doing a word search where you can only scan the grid in one direction, if you miss your current and only word, or realise you saw it too late, you have to start at the top again. All of this feels extremely cynical because clearly they would have tested this and observed how shit it is. They’re too competent.

The flip mechanic is done in a really uninteresting way - literally it adds nothing, except perhaps hamstrings the level design so it works basically both ways. Certainly there’s nothing like the original concept in the game where a hidden truth is revealed to help you figure stuff out. It’s all pretty perfunctory. Even the idea of the race back - like wario shake dimension - is done in such a chill way that it feels pointless to have a timer really.

My kids both love Yoshi. I haven’t played it at all, but it’s a delight watching them play a game on their own for the first time ever. Mind you, they also love playing Excitebike on the NES online thing. So maybe they just have low standards.

I’m joking, Excitebike is da bomb.